Spinach from Many Gardens. Gathered by the Typophiles and Fed to Frederic Goudy on his Seventieth Birthday 1935.
(NY, 1935). 5 1/4 x 8 1/2. 85 leaves, large foldout broadside by Albert Schiller. Cloth with leather title labels on upper cover and spine. Spine label worn, wear to spine ends, spine darkened. The end papers bear an acidic stain from newspaper article laid in. Very good copy of a rare book.
Twenty-one Typophiles have signed inside the front cover, including Bruce Rogers, John Fass, Paul Bennett, Peter Beilenson, Albert Schiller, Melbert Cary, Otto Fuhrmann. Several more have signed their contributions. Bently Raak's copy, inscribed to him by Goudy. Item #18998
No. 26 of 60 copies. Over 30 designers & printers, using various Goudy types, contributed. Presses include Golden Hind, Harbor, Marchbanks, Spiral, and Woolly Whale. "Garden" title page designed by Bruce Rogers with ornaments in green and brown. There is a signed woodcut of the Village Press house by Charles W. Smith. There are checklists of Goudy's writings, and books designed with his type faces. This was the first Typophile book.
Raak was a type designer, professor of typographic design at Syracuse University, and inventor of the Vari-Typer, a type composing machine for the office.
Price: $2,000.00